CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Vrdolyak indicted on income tax evasion, impeding IRS – Jon Seidelhttp://chicago.suntimes.com/news/vrdolyak-indicted-on-income-tax-evasion-impeding-irs/— No way all those absent Chicago teachers are ill – Editorial (DIERSEN: All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the federal government, I took far fewer sick days than my Democrat coworkers and subordinates. They demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me for that. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I took fewer sick days a) because I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth and because I have always been privileged, b) because I am not a veteran because I sought and obtained student draft deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment, and c) because my wife and I gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents.)http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-no-way-all-those-absent-chicago-teachers-are-ill/

DAILY HERALD
— BEYOND TRAGIC: Smoked pot? No college? The police still might hire you – AP (DIERSEN: All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the federal government, the federal government lowered its hiring and promotion standards so that it could hire, retain, and promote more minorities and more females.)http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161114/business/311149914/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Some police departments are relaxing age-old standards for accepting recruits. The changes are designed to deal with decreased interest in a job that offers low pay, rigorous physical demands and the possibility of death, all while under public scrutiny. There’s also the need to lure more minorities. The Connecticut State Police is among the agencies wrestling with diversity.)— $1 million Main West hazing settlement must be cautionary tale for suburban schools – Editorialhttp://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161114/discuss/161119470/— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Addison District 4, teachers union reach tentative deal – Katlyn Smithhttp://www.dailyherald.com/article/20161115/news/161119396/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump immigration plan sparks blowback in Chicago – GREG HINZ (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will the Democrats who run Chicago officially banish from Chicago those individuals, organization, and companies that are Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161114/BLOGS02/161119943/trump-immigration-plan-sparks-blowback-in-chicago— City, metro job totals finally match their 2000 peak – GREG HINZ (DIERSEN: From what I see, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, ever-increasingly, employers are more and more and more anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20161115/BLOGS02/161119934

ABC7
— SOLDIER FROM ILLINOIS KILLED IN AFGHANISTANhttp://abc7chicago.com/news/soldier-from-illinois-killed-in-afghanistan/1606174/— TRUMP SUPPORTER BEATEN ON WEST SIDE EXPLAINS WHY HE DIDN’T FIGHT BACK – Chuck Goudie and Christine Tresse (DIERSEN: To avoid being harmed by Clinton supporters, Trump supporters may want avoid precincts, townships/wards, and counties where lots of people voted for Clinton. In the interest of full disclosure, about 56% of those in my precinct (on average about one person per residence), 53% in Milton Township, and 53% in DuPage County who voted for U.S. President voted for Clinton. I could point out homes in my precinct in which one or more of the residents are filled with hatred of not only Trump, but of all those like me who share his demographics.)http://abc7chicago.com/news/trump-supporter-beaten-on-west-side-explains-why-he-didnt-fight-back/1607016/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A Donald Trump supporter who was beaten by a mob of teenagers in a Chicago intersection said he didn’t fight back for a reason. Victim David Wilcox retreated and curled up into a ball, but not because he was afraid of being hurt. He told the I-Team that he was terrified of fighting back and going to prison where he has spent many years of his adult life. The video of the beating was seen by millions around the world, but this is the first time we learn the back story. After the incident, Wilcox told the public: “I’m not a violent person. I haven’t been in a long time.” On Monday, he explained to the I-Team what he meant. Wilcox said he hasn’t been violent since what happened in Chicago’s Sauganash neighborhood in August 1986, the last time Wilcox was attacked on a public street. He was 20 years old at the time and outside a house party on Kenneth Avenue, Wilcox said he and his 16-year-old pregnant girlfriend were attacked by several men he’d been feuding with. “He ran up on me with a baseball bat and beat up on me” Wilcox told the I-Team on Monday. “I stabbed the guy and he died…They were aggressors. They started the fight.” Wilcox was convicted of murder and sent to Stateville prison after he was sentenced to 20 years. He served nearly seven-and-a-half years after an appeal dropped the charge to manslaughter. “I’d rather get stabbed and die than go back to prison,” Wilcox said Monday. For Wilcox, it wasn’t just one experience in prison that has him fearful of being locked up again. According to Illinois Department of Corrections officials, he’s been in state prison nine times in the past 30 years. His was arrested for retail theft and, in 2013, faced a marijuana charge in Cook County. When last week’s traffic altercation grew into a Trump-bashing incident, Wilcox defended himself by retreating and later explained the incident just as he explained the 1986 killing he was involved in. “She was the first one who threw a punch,” Wilcox said. As the punches landed, Wilcox was dazed because he had prayed to god to never put him in a violent situation again. And if those who beat him last week are ever arrested, his hope for their punishment comes from experience: “I’m gonna be at every court date and I’m gonna make sure I can do everything I can to where they get locked up,” Wilcox said. He would like to see them locked up in the kind of place where Wilcox says he was — in Stateville, where in the 1980s he says white inmates were unwelcome guests, adding that he has PTSD from his days there. None of this changes the fact that Wilcox was the victim of an angry crowd. But it does explain why he didn’t fight back.)

FOX ILLINOIS
— Message For Islamic Society: You’re ‘Cherished’ – JACLYN DRISCOLL (DIERSEN: I should write an article, or maybe a book, about “church members” in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who hint/imply/argue/shout that they despise if not hate those who are not a member of their church, and especially those like me who were baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I am not a member of any church. Ever-increasingly, “church leaders” talk and act like they are operatives or dupes for the Democrat Party.)http://foxillinois.com/news/local/message-for-islamic-society-youre-cherished

CATHOLIC CITIZENS OF ILLINOIS
— Loyola University’s history course on slavery has a new section on Donald Trump – MATT LAMB (DIERSEN: Because I share many demographics with Trump, will Loyola revoke the MBA that I earned there in 1976?)http://catholiccitizens.org/news/68764/universitys-history-course-slavery-new-section-donald-trump/(CCI Editor Mary Anne Hackett’s note: I called on Cardinal-Elect Cupich to put a stop to this overt racism from a professor of a Catholic University in Chicago. Filling the minds of young college students with such lies about our history, destroys their love of America and patriotism which makes them unfit to live in a civil society and endangers the lives of people who may disagree with them. This is a perfect opportunity to put social justice to work!)

DAILY SIGNAL
— As National Debt Nears $20 Trillion, Senator Takes Aim at Government Waste – Rachel del Guidice (DIERSEN: GAO fights government waste. I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 levels, currently $92,632-$120,427. But GAO wasted my career and forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old. GAO would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, a minority, a female, and/or a veteran.)http://dailysignal.com/2016/11/14/as-national-debt-nears-20-trillion-senator-takes-aim-at-government-waste/

ACCURACY IN MEDIA
— Liberal Media Unsure on How to Report on Trump’s Pledge of Not Taking Presidential Salary – Spencer Irvine (DIERSEN: Toward the bitter end, my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates hinted/implied/argues/shouted that I was so filthy stinking rich that I should not take a salary.)http://www.aim.org/on-target-blog/liberal-media-unsure-on-how-to-report-on-trumps-pledge-of-not-taking-presidential-salary/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The liberal media does not know what to say about Donald Trump’s plan to fulfill his campaign pledge to not take a presidential salary of about $400,000, which would make him the third president to do so, in the footsteps of Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy. Huffington Post could only point out that Trump will be fulfilling a campaign pledge. USA Today insinuated that Trump’s campaign pledge derived from the Republicans’ ire towards Obama and Obama’s golfing trips. CBS News could only say the following: “From the very beginning, Trump has promised that he’d set businesses concerns aside if he was elected. In fact, he told “Face The Nation” moderator John Dickerson last October that he’s been “phasing out” his role throughout his campaign.”)

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The New Key to Immigration Reform: More High-Skilled Immigrants – MICHAEL BARONE (DIERSEN: Are/were you high-skilled at anything? My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I have never been high-skilled at anything. In my defense, I stress a) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) that I became a licensed CPA in 1981, a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, a Certified Government Financial Manager in 1994, a Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and a Forensic Accountant in 1997, c) that I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, d) that I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 levels, currently $77,899-$88,286, and e) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 levels, currently $92,632-$120,427.)http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442174/donald-trumps-immigration-reform-could-focus-increasing-skilled-labor

COLLEGE FIX
— Loyola University’s history course on slavery has a new section on Donald Trump Also covers ‘recent efforts to suppress the black vote’ and ‘racist police brutality’ – MATT LAMB (DIERSEN: Because I share many demographics with Trump, will Loyola revoke the MBA that I earned there in 1976?)http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/29808/

AMERICAN THINKER
— How to Reform the Civil Service – Bruce Walker (DIERSEN: Should I write a book about Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, and RINOs in Wheaton, in Glen Ellyn, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois who are overjoyed that the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old?)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/11/how_to_reform_the_civil_service.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Thomas Lifson has correctly observed that reforming the Civil Service System ought to be a high priority for President-Elect Trump and the new Republican Congress. We need to understand why the Civil Service System first created as a reform in how the federal government operated. “To the victors go the spoils” was the way Andrew Jackson put it almost 200 years ago. Jackson expressed the view that the president has the right – legal and moral – to throw out government employees and replace them with cronies. The size of the federal government was proportionately much smaller then than today, and those political allies rewarded with jobs to deliver the mail or to collect tariffs seemed innocuous enough, at least until President Garfield was assassinated by a disgruntled federal office seeker in 1881. The Pendleton Act of 1883 created a system in which those who sought federal jobs, except for a layer of high-level executives, had to pass an objective hiring system. The second part of Civil Service System reforms was to create protections that made it difficult – really, almost impossible – for any Civil Service System employee ever to lose his job. This is the heart of the problem. Presidents can fill the upper echelon of federal agencies with whomever they want (except for the few who require Senate confirmation), and presidents can fire these people easily enough as well. But no one – not even these high-level political appointees – can fire anyone. Ironically, the problems with the spoils system had nothing to do with firing federal employees, but only with hiring federal employees. The right reform is simple enough: allow the president to fire any federal employee in the Executive Branch at will, but keep the system in place only for hiring through the Civil Service System. A president would then have the power to fire lazy, dishonest, rude, or unnecessary federal employees, but he could have no power to fill those positions he caused by firing bad federal employees with his supporters or partisans. So if a federal employee took the Fifth Amendment in an investigation of federal malfeasance, something that Thomas Lifson correctly noted was intolerable, the next day, that employee could be told, “You can either refuse to answer questions or keep your federal job, but not both.” If President Trump brought in business experts to analyze federal operations and detect waste and inefficiency, then President Trump could do what he did so often in his reality television show and fire those who are unnecessary. Anyone familiar with the internal operations of government knows that 30% is a conservative figure for the number of federal employees who do nothing. Allowing a tough, business-oriented president like Trump to dramatically reduce the size of the federal government would also reduce the cost of government – and all this could be done expeditiously. Federal employees would instantly become not only more efficient, but more polite and responsive to the public (i.e., the folks who pay their salaries). More than that, coworkers in offices would strongly encourage politeness and civility, because the more complaints a particular office caused, the more likely that office would be to get a bad reputation, and people in that office would be fired. What about the danger of a president forcing people to support him or lose their jobs? Civil servants ought to be completely apolitical anyway and ought not to contribute to any political campaign or to work for any candidate. If that was the case in practice, then the president could not know who did not support him and, because all hiring was objective and removed from the president’s power, he could not hire any friends. If the president could not reward anyone by firing a federal employee but could only punish the federal employee by firing him, he would have every incentive to be fair in firing federal employees. Politicians know that punishing voters loses votes not only because that voter, who may have supported the president, would be unhappy, but because every fired employee has family and friends and neighbors and congregants at his church, and firing an employee causes ill will among all those close to the fired employee. This is a reform is easy to understand and would make sense to the American voter. Best of all, it would work. Civility, efficiency, and integrity in the administration of the federal government would improve almost at once.)

POLITICO
— Official: Trump’s children have not sought security clearances – BRENT GRIFFITHS (DIERSEN: I passed background investigations in 1966 when the Post Office hire me, in 1971 when IRS hired me, and in 1980 when GAO hired me. Many millions have not and will not seek federal jobs because they know that they cannot pass a background investigation.)http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/adam-kinzinger-donald-trump-children-231375— Priebus defends Steve Bannon as ‘force for good’ on campaign – LOUIS NELSON (DIERSEN: Who defends you? The following DO NOT DEFEND ME: THOSE WHO: a) reject planks in the Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, b) reject planks in the Illinois Republican Party platform and work against those like me who support those planks, c) reject the Milton Township Republican Central Committee resolution against video gambling and work against those like me who support that resolution, d) focus on destroying those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, e) were defendants in lawsuits that I have filed, f) are operatives for the aforesaid, and/or g) are dupes for the aforesaid AND THOSE WHO ARE anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/reince-priebus-defends-steve-bannon-231322— Mendoza: Lawmakers shouldn’t expect paychecks any time soon – NATASHA KORECKIhttp://www.politico.com/states/illinois/story/2016/11/mendoza-lawmakers-shouldnt-expect-paychecks-anytime-soon-107353— Soros bands with donors to resist Trump, ‘take back power’ Major liberal funders huddle behind closed doors with Pelosi, Warren, Ellison, and union bosses to lick wounds, retrench. – KENNETH P. VOGEL (DIERSEN: Anti-Trumps want to get rid of those who are Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/democrats-soros-trump-231313

THE HILL
— Free advice for Trump: Don’t touch the Dreamers – FERNANDO ESPUELAS (DIERSEN: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, ever-increasingly, individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that encourage people to come to America illegally, to stay in America illegally, and/or to bring others to America illegally MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THEY ARE anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America longer than their ancestors.)http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/immigration/305941-free-advice-for-trump-dont-touch-the-dreamers

ABC SAN FRANCISCO
— SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR SAYS ELECTION WILL NOT CHANGE THE CITY – Sergio Quintana (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will San Francisco banish from the city all those who are a member of one or more of the following groups: Protestant, conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, rich, gun owners, German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)http://abc7news.com/politics/san-francisco-mayor-says-election-will-not-change-the-city/1607070/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— U.S. Detention Facilities Struggle With New Migrant Surge Central American families and unaccompanied children overwhelm nonprofit shelters too – MIRIAM JORDAN (DIERSEN: Individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that encourage people to come America illegally, to stay in America illegally, and/or to bring others to America illegally SHOULD BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.)http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-detention-facilities-struggle-with-new-migrant-surge-1479147492— Legal Marijuana Poses a Problem for Gun Buyers Firearm purchases by drug users are prohibited by federal law – GARY FIELDS and KRISTINA PETERSON (DIERSEN: Because pot destroys your brain, no one who uses pot should be allowed to own a gun.)http://www.wsj.com/articles/legal-marijuana-poses-a-problem-for-gun-buyers-1479154520— A Columnist’s Responsibility In an age of political propaganda, readers deserve independent judgment. – BRET STEPHENS (DIERSEN: He who pays the piper calls the tunes. I have enough time and enough money that I do not ask for money, nor will I accept money, for what I do as your GOPUSA Illinois Editor. He who pays the piper calls the tunes.)http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-columnists-responsibility-1479168515

NPR
— Who Is Reince Priebus, Trump’s Newly Named Chief Of Staff? – BRIAN NAYLOR (DIERSEN: When was your star on the rise? My star was on the rise 1971-1974 while I worked for IRS. But my star crashed when my Democrat IRS superiors succeeded in getting rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My star was on the rise 1986-1988 while I worked for GAO. But my star crashed when my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in getting rid of the GAO manager who had hired me in 1980, got me assigned to audits of IRS in 1986, and promoted me in 1986.)http://www.npr.org/2016/11/14/501984948/who-is-reince-priebus-trumps-new-chief-of-staff
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Priebus, 44, has been the longest-serving RNC chairman, winning the job in 2011 after serving as its general counsel. He unseated his boss, Michael Steele, and took over a party that was some $24 million in debt. Priebus led the famous “autopsy” of the GOP after its loss in the 2012 election, which recommended shortening the primary season and endorsing immigration reform as a way of reaching out to Latino voters. Priebus made an unsuccessful run for the Wisconsin state senate and in 2007 became chairman of the state GOP. In 2010, he helped elect Republican Scott Walker as governor and a GOP majority in the state Legislature, and it was clear his star was on the rise.)

FINANCIAL TIMES
— Trump’s choice of Priebus gives hopes for Republican unity Former party chairman is credited with bringing together establishment and outsiders – Demetri Sevastopulo and Sam Fleming (DIERSEN: I should write a book about past and present Milton Township Republican Central Committee (MTRCC), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Illinois Republican Party (IRP) officials and employees who focus on driving out of the MTRCC, the DCRCC, and the IRP those like me who support the traditional marriage, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, gambling, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving), Second Amendment, and other planks in the party’s platform. The aforesaid talk and act like they are Democrat plants, Libertarian plants, Green plants, or RINOs.)https://www.ft.com/content/02ac95e4-aa8f-11e6-ba7d-76378e4fef24

SALON
— Donald Trump’s immigration plan is going to be very expensive and very intrusive Behind the enormous costs, human and financial, of Donald Trump’s central campaign proposal – MATTHEW ROZSA (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps make it clear a) that they side with foreign countries against America and b) that they side with the citizens of foreign countries against the citizens of America. Ever-increasingly, anti-Trumps make it clear that they are treasonous.)http://www.salon.com/2016/11/14/donald-trumps-immigration-plan-is-going-to-be-very-expensive-and-very-intrusive/

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.
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